Alternate History + Imperial Examinations + Addictive Power Fantasy + Farming + Political Intrigue
The Lin family's ancestors served as soldiers for the previous dynasty, so the family was branded as lowborn. For generations, they had been slaves and servants, enduring discrimination and humiliation. They were forbidden to study for the imperial examinations or to marry ordinary commoners.
Lin Xiu transmigrated to the Great Jing Dynasty. His predecessor had been clever from childhood, teaching himself to read and write at the age of five. When the clan chief heard that a hundred taels of silver could persuade the county magistrate to revoke Lin Xiu's lowborn status, allowing him to study for the examinations like an ordinary commoner, he seized the chance.
The entire Lin clan sold their possessions and borrowed at usurious interest to scrape together the hundred taels. They wanted Lin Xiu to rise through the ranks, change their fate through the imperial examinations, and lead the whole clan out of hardship.
But the money was spent and the matter was never settled. His predecessor died of despair, and Lin Xiu transmigrated into his place.
Facing the hopes of the entire Lin clan, Lin Xiu revealed his talents and made powerful connections. From then on, he soared to success, freed the whole clan from their lowborn status, and rose to the highest ranks of the nobility!
This book is also known as “The Whole Clan Helps Me Rise to Greatness, So I Repay Them with Ten Thousand Taels of Gold,” “Lowborn People Can't Take the Imperial Exams, So How Did He Become the Top Graduate?” and “My Family Has Been Lowborn for Generations, Yet I Came First in the Exams!”
